Zh Nevropatol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova. 1993 ; 93(4): 42-5.

[The duration of courses of manual therapy in vertebrogenic neurological and somatic pathology]

Panasiuk EN, Titkin VP, Ivanov PK, Zerbino DD, GoÄdenko VS, Dobrotvorskaia TE, Kushakov VI, Rolev SS.

The authors have developed and validated algorithms, programs, regimens and techniques of manual and instrumental treatment which produced positive effects in 99% of patients with neurological syndromes of spinal affections. The criteria of the treatment discontinuation were alleviation of painful syndrome by 25-50%. This occurred, as a rule, after 3-4 sessions. The course averaged 10 sessions and more. The treatment was discontinued after stabilization of subjective improvement.